Turner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Stamper v. Commonwealth (1979), Parks v. Commonwealth (1980)
64 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Avent v. Commonwealth · 3 Md. App. 652 - Lawless v. State · State v. Kuhl · State v. Phillips · 15 N.C. App. 74 - State v. Phillips
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`circumstances completely independent of the fingerprint, and may properly include circumstances such as the location of the print, the character of the place or premises where it was found and the accessibility of the general public to the object on which the print was impressed.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“And the hypotheses which must be reasonably excluded are those which flow from the evidence itself, and not from the imagination of defendant's counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he fingerprint evidence need be joined only with evidence of other circumstances tending to reasonably exclude the hypothesis that the print was made at some other time than during commission of the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.